Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Permission Error on new install when installing package

3: Re: Permission Error on new install when installing package (response to 2)

Posted by Raul Rodriguez on 07/05/14 10:35 PM

Thank you for you help.

Yes the tmpdir is set to ""

What is it supposed to be set to?

How do I set it?

Thank you

4: Re: Permission Error on new install when installing package (response to 3)

Posted by Benjamin Brink on 07/06/14 12:53 AM

Raul,

try setting temp dir to "/tmp" or "/var/tmp" per:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/en/man7/hier.7.html

cheers,
Ben

5: Re: Permission Error on new install when installing package (response to 3)

Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 07/06/14 01:29 AM

In case the value comes from the environment variable TMPDIR: Since ubuntu (at least the version i've checked) does not set TMPDIR, it has been set to "" on your system. Setting TMPDIR to "" is quite unusual. See [1] for how to set environment variables for a single shell, for a user or for the full system. You can set the environment variable e.g. in the script starting the server.

In case, the value is from you config file: check your startup-file for a add a line containing "tmpdir". If it is there, delete the line.

An appropriate value is e.g. "/tmp" (maybe with a trailing slash) as Benjamin already mentioned.

-g

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables

6: Re: Permission Error on new install when installing package (response to 5)

Posted by Raul Rodriguez on 07/06/14 05:21 AM

Thank you for your help.

I added it to the /var/www/oacs-oacs-5-8/etc/config.tcl and I am still getting the same error. Where in the config.tcl file do I add it?

I tried here:
ns_section ns/parameters
ns_param serverlog ${serverroot}/log/error.log
ns_param home $homedir
ns_param tmpdir /tmp

Thank You

7: Re: Permission Error on new install when installing package (response to 6)

Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 07/06/14 01:39 PM

yes, the place looks correct.

Just to be sure: is this really the config file you are using to start the server? Per default, the install script of [1] installs the startup script to ${ns_install_dir}/config-${oacs_service}.tcl, which is /usr/local/ns/config-${oacs_service}.tcl per default, and not in /var/www. There is nothing wrong about installing it there. I find it just hard to believe, that setting the parameter has no effect on querying the parameter later (via [ns_config ns/parameters tmpdir]).

In case, this was the file used for startup, replace in your build-dir naviserver-4.99.6/nsd/nsmain.c by https://openacs.org/nsmain.c, cd to naviserver-4.99.6, and do there a "root make install". After this, start your server; you should early during startup in the log file a line containing "get tmpdir".

[06/Jul/2014:13:07:44][4863.7fff777a7310][-main-] Notice: get tmpdir - config value 0x7f8b8d83fbb0 </tmp>

What do you get? What version of Ubuntu are you using?

-g
[1] https://openacs.org/xowiki/naviserver-openacs

8: Re: Permission Error on new install when installing package (response to 7)

Posted by Raul Rodriguez on 07/08/14 05:22 AM

I updated the wrong config file.

After I updated:
/usr/local/ns/config-oacs-oacs-5-8.tcl

It worked.

Thank you for your help.